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<h2>Teal (Anas crecca) Ring Recovery Dataset</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>This dataset describes the location and date of recovery of 800 teal
ringed in Camargue, southern France between
January 1952 and February 1978 using standard dabbling duck funnel
traps hidden in the vegetation. 
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(teal)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>The following variables are given for each recovery:
</p>

<dl>
<dt><code>x</code></dt><dd><p>a numeric vector giving the longitude of the
recovery</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>y</code></dt><dd><p>a numeric vector giving the latitude of the
recovery</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>date</code></dt><dd><p>a vector of class POSIXct containing the date of
recovery.  Actually, only the day and month have been indicated.
The year of recovery has been set to 1900 or 1901, and should not
be taken into account in the analysis.</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Details</h3>

<p>The Camargue teal ringing program led to the recovery of 9,114 teals
after the ringing of 59,187 birds. These 800 recoveries of this
dataset are a subsample of the 4,652 birds recovered during the first
year following ringing.  Note that both the coordinates and the date
have been jittered to preserve copyright on the data.
</p>


<h3>Source</h3>

<p>La Tour du Valat. A research centre for the conservation of
Mediterranean wetlands. Le Sambuc - 13200 Arles, France.
http://en.tourduvalat.org/
</p>


<h3>Examples</h3>

<pre>
data(teal)

plot(teal[,1:2], asp=1,
     xlab="longitude", ylab="latitude",
     main="Capture site (red) and recoveries")

points(attr(teal, "CaptureSite"), pch=16,
       cex=2, col="red")
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